Transcript for Woman struck by debris on popular roller coaster
Right now, Amy, a frightening scene at a major amusement park park. A woman in line for a popular roller coaster was struck by falling debris at Ohio’s cedar point. Newly released body cam footage showing the rush to help her and erielle reshef joins us with the latest. Reporter: Good morning. Just a nightmare scenario. Witnesses say that object was about the size of a football that hit the woman. Several nurses who just happened to be standing in line waiting for that ride jumping in to help. Tell them to stop the ride. Stop the ride. Reporter: This morning authorities investigating a harrowing accident at an Ohio amusement park. 911, what’s your emergency? They need to send someone to cedar point. There’s someone who is in bad shape. What happened? Something flew off a ride and hit them a they’re bleeding on the head. Reporter: Witnesses calling 911 from cedar point amusement park after officials say a woman was struck by an object that flew from the park’s popular top thrill dragster roller coaster while she was waiting in line. Somebody said they got hit in the head by a big object. Someone got hit in the head by a big object. Do you know — People are screaming and crying. Reporter: Sandusky police releasing footage showing the panicked aftermath as first responders race to help. The park says the ride was ending its run when a small metal object detached from one of the cars and hit the woman. One witness saying the object was the size of a football. It was this big. We don’t know what it was. Reporter: According to a place report theme park guests along with the park’s ems team jumped in to help before rushing the woman to the hospital. One parkgoer, a trauma nurse, was standing behind the woman when she was struck. We were, you know, just trying to be as calm as we could be. Keep her calm. Make sure she was breathing, everybody was as stable as humanly possible, did the best we did with what we had. Didn’t have any supplies unless the ems arrived so used other people’s shirts, whatever, to control everything that we possibly could, keep her safe, keep the scene safe. Reporter: Authorities now trying to figure out what went wrong. The ride which is 420 feet tall and goes from 0 to 120 miles per hour was inspected by the department of agriculture in may and was scheduled for another inspection next month. And that ride is required to be inspected twice per year by law. It is now shut down pending the outcome of the investigation, the park now saying its focus is on this woman and her family. As ours is too, guys. Back to you. You’re right about that. We hope she makes a full recovery. Thank goodness for nurses and others who jumped in to heavy as they did.
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